Navi esports club launches ‘metaverse’ with DMarket in-game trading platform

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 22, 2020
Updated June 19, 2025
3 min

Esports club Navi (also known as Natus Vincere, or “born to win”), is launching a new gaming portal, or “metaverse,” with the help of blockchain-based game tech company DMarket.

Navi is an esports club based in Kyiv, Ukraine, and it is celebrating its 11th anniversary with the launch of NaviNation, which lets fans craft, sell, and buy digital assets and receive rewards and gifts from the team and partners. Rewards include club merchandise, gaming accessories, and even the opportunity to visit major championships together with their team in real life. The companies call this a metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.